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A work in progress this week. first of all because my hammond organ is still in restauration, and second I couldn’t be bothered to record a real rhodes because of the fake-hammond organ… There is so much going on at the same time here that I seriously considered to slow my postings down. I gave that a little thought and I came to the conclusion that I’ll always am surfing for corny stuff, so I might as well share it through this blog.
Many of the songs that are in the works now are becoming much complexer and involve a lot more time than the things I did in the past. I still like to make sketch-like music now and again, but I feel the little things are getting in the way of the big and important things.

Basically this is a tune I ordered myself to finish. This has been cooking for quiet some time now, so the minute my organ is in I’m recording the final version.

enjoy,

Smokers Lounge (excerpt) 1:41

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Last week I finished another rendition of the Extralife tune.
This was floating in the back of my mind for ages so I basically had to make it to get it out of my system. Again, not really a campy cheesy crappy Schnauzer-tune but an attempt at a techno-tune (with a campy cheesy crappy theme as the source).
Also this thing accelerated the idea Scott Johnson and I had for a while: The Official Extralife CD.  This will be a collaboration between the Extralife Radio team/comic, and the Schnauzer Radio Orchestra.
I’m really curious to find out what happens when a hugely popular podcast, which is available weekly for absolutely no charge starts offering a CD.
Are fans of the show more into mp3′s for their ipods, or are they craving for a shiny disc with cool artwork by some highly respected webcartoonists? Time will tell.
No guts no glory! I have two more releases to finish this next year, but production has started today.

Enjoy,

Extratechno 3:20

When Stockhausen heard music by Aphex Twin and Massive Attack, his response was: ‘Pretty good, but they should give up repetition’
This was an experiment with electronics, rhythm and repetition but each part had it’s own tempo. So this might sound random, it’s just not.

The music could be illustrating the following:

‘Finally young Gurp found his way into the secret Alien Laboratory. He gazed upon the strange materials when his eye fell on a small purple egg.’

Then again, I could be wrong

Alien Lab 2:32

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Getting pumped up for Christmas. This Manic Monday is exactly one year old. I made this in December 2006 for ExtralifeRadio. That was played only once during their christmas-special, but this year it goes into recycle mode and is played the whole month…
The R2D2 sample in the beginning is real, and taken from the album ‘christmas in the stars’. Very corny stuff!
Halfway there is not happening much in this tune. That is because it was made as a musical bed for Scotts voice to welcome everybody, thank me for this music, thank me again etc…
I am currently working on a 2008-version of the elr-tune. That will be posted the minute it is ready.

Enjoy,

Extralife-Xmas 2:12

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Before we kick off the Christmas Mayhem that will be raving all over the Schnauzer Studios, I present you ‘Kuchen’ a track that started in Switzerland 2 months ago and was ‘finished’ just this morning.

The minute I thought :’the cowbell could use some fattening up’, my DAW crashed hard and set me back about 5 hours. Apparently Ableton-Live has something against more cowbell. I’m going to look into this. Perhaps Pro-tools let you add an infinite amount of cowbell. This calls out for an independent test-panel.
but first, enjoy a brand new ‘schnauzer’…

Kuchen 3:38

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I thought I’ve reached the depth of the pit, but the bottom is in sight.
Too much songs are in production at the same time now and not a single change to make an inbetween-mix.  And everybody knows: Mime is money!
So here is the lamest manic Monday ever: Total production time: zero minutes….
To make it lazier than this I would have to make a song with a negative production time, anyone got some ideas how to do that?
I have even more news about this particular song, but that is for another post.

There is nothing wrong with your stereo, but you are not going to enjoy,
Mime Dance Party 1:00

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-inspired by Marco’s photo-composition-challenge-
This week I ripped a picture of the net and gave myself one hour to come up with a composition for it. Bonita’s dream was also a challenge like this but this time it took me exactly 1.04 minutes… and that makes this the most crappy and lazy manic Monday ever… A new depth has been reached.
My deepest apologies.

Steak with fries: 1:04

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This is what you get when you get stuck for 5 hours at an airport with a macbook with ableton live, and no keyboard..
I asked the airline company if they had a piano for hire. Which isn’t such a stupid question, musicians get stuck all over the world all the time! Strangely enough they couldn’t even provide me with a midi-keyboard…
So don’t blame me for this, blame the French.

AirportCDG 2:26

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This must be the weirdest Manic Monday ever. This started out as a loungy radio-announcement for Halloween. I threw away nearly all the beats and stuck a one take synth-improv I did a year ago under it. The only thing that reminds me of the original melody is the theremin, but that is very far away, and it turned out as ‘Silent Hill’ meets Tom Waits meets ‘it came from outer space’.

Nothing to Worry About 3:56

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***Philibreeze Update***
I allready told you about the 3 minute holiday, about the ukelele, and about the philicorda. This update adds 2 trumpets. Now I don’t want to post a tune everytime I add a single instrument, but since this has such a big impact on the song, and this is the jump the SRO wanted to make, I had to show you.

Philibreeze 3:12

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